Fall in love with these autumn-inspired crumb bars featuring a ruby red fig, apple, and vanilla jam between layers of a sweet and salty oat and brown sugar crumb. They are sweet and salty, tender and crunchy, buttery and fruity, all in one delicious bite.
These rustic, messy-delicious crumb bars aren’t winning any beauty pageants, but when it comes to flavor and simplicity, they’ll score top marks every time. With a simple oat-based dough that’s used as both the base and the crumb, and a layer of homemade fig, apple and vanilla jam sandwiched in between.
This recipe was created in partnership with Amoretti (use coupon code LOVEANDOLIVEOILFREESHIP for free shipping on your order!) All opinions expressed here are my own.
I wanted to make a fall flavored bar cookie of sorts. I knew I wanted a brown sugar and oat crumble with some sort of vanilla-infused fruit filling, but I couldn’t decide if I wanted that filling to be fig or apple.
Fig and vanilla? Or apple and vanilla? Which sounds better to you? That is the million dollar question.
I ended up making a pan of each to bring to ceramics class with me, hoping to crowdsource the decision and help me make up my mind. Ultimately, my classmates liked both versions equally for different reasons (y’all were really no help at all here, lol).
In the end, I did what I often do when I can’t decide: I did both, combining the fig and apple together into a single multi-fruit spread that’s fruity and flavorful and fabulous for fall.
It’s really the best of both worlds.
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